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Out of It‘s travelling around out there, which rules! A brief recap:

• I’m a Featured Commoner on the Creative Commons blog.
• There’s a Jamendo feature.
• There’s a Q&A with me over on ccMixter.
• I did an interview for the Command Line podcast.
• Wil Wheaton likes it!

Remixes and stuff:

• There are a good number of remixes going on over at ccMixter. Still going through them to find the gems – finding listening to my voice difficult.
• This partial-Flash video for Certain Death makes me happy.
• Athene (best paladin in the world) is using the new songs!
• I’m behind in updating the music info page but will get on that soon.

Extra places you can get it:

• Out of It is now on Amazon.com. It’s out of stock right now but I shipped off some more a week ago so it should be up soon.
• It’s on Magnatune now.
• It’s on Jamendo.
• It’s been delivered to Napster, Rhapsody, Amie Street, Apple iTunes and eMusic (and a few other I’ve never heard of) but when they put it online is up to them. Let me know if you spot it.
• Out of stock at CD Baby but should be back in soon.
• A bunch of the new tracks are on iLike, if you’re into adding stuff to Facebook and so on.
• The whole album’s up on Last.fm as well.
• My MySpace page has been updated with new songs also.

There are a lot of things I’m missing, but this will have to do for now.

I’ve been loading all user-submitted stuff (remixes, tabs, etc) into a database so I can display and maintain it better. I loaded all the remixes people have done of my songs into it today and spat out this chart:

Interesting, I always figured Making Me Nervous and Dirtbag would be way up there as they’re my most popular tracks, but I’m surprised to see Overreacting in the top three.

I’m way, way, hopelessly, way behind on posting remixes. I’ve been in denial about it as they’ve stacked up, but I think I have to admit that I’m so far behind I may never be caught up again. I still love getting the remixes — but it takes a lot of time to process them and I’m short on the time lately.

CC Mixter and I’ll make listing those here a priority. Sorry to all the remixers who sent stuff in that hasn’t been posted. Anyway, I just thought I’d come clean.

Update: Remix posts to CC Mixter should automatically show up in the remix section (way down at the bottom) now. Still tidying that up, but it seems to work.

Finally (after months of delay) I think the source to every song on I Don’t Know What I’m Doing as well as separate acapellas is now on ccMixter here. And now I’m happy to move on to new things to put off for months, like trying to integrate the ccMixter list of remixes onto my site somehow.

I’ve been getting a lot of email about some remixes done by an Israeli group called Psycraft on their album Computech. They’ve done remixes of Borderline and Dirtbag and apparently have had a bit of success with it, appearing on the latest Raja Ram mix cd.

Here’s a cover for I Don’t Know What I’m Doing Remixed that Sam Stroube did:

Also he’s got a short film/video called Oatmeal set to a Brother Machine song that you can check out here.

MC Jack in the Box has remixed my entire I Don’t Know What I’m Doing album. It’s called I Don’t Know What I’m Doing Either.

Remixes:

• Bad Attraction (Mind Gears mix)
• Look and Feel Years Younger (narf mix)
• Making Me Nervous (electro glorious mix)
• Making Me Nervous (gov crunchy apple mix)
• Overreacting (5 Easy Steps To Building A Better Birdhouse mix)
• Overreacting (justdave mix)
• Sick as a Dog (Pizt 2 Fast mix)

A bunch more have been added over on my ccMixter page.

• John Bintz has done a short film called Reginald Smith: The Cookie Meltdown. I’m told there’s a remix of my song Dropping Out of School in there about a third of the way through.
• Simon David put Making Me Nervous in a video diary for the feature film he’s producing.

As far as podcast play, I’ve kinda lost track because I’m disorganized. My Podsafe page tells me I’ve been played on Unsigned podcast, Tower of Song, RSM Robert Smoove Music, Radio Free Cruze and IT Conversations lately. Thanks!

Hey look, it’s the Brad Sucks Online Collaboration Contest, brought to you by KillYourFM Magazine and MyVirtualBand.com. Here’s how to participate.

MyVirtualBand.com is a site I think I’ve talked about before. Its main goal is to hook up potential musical collaborators and get them working on songs together. For this competition thing, I’ve provided the source to my song Dirtbag. People can now collaborate with it or re-record everything or do whatever the like with it. Entries will be judged and so on. Here’s how to participate.

People are still downloading the hell out of the remix album and my album source, which is fantastic. Thanks to everyone who’s been spreading it! Here’s some remixed cover art that the original I Don’t Know What I’m Doing album artist Allen Henderson did:

In retrospect I probably should have asked him to draw that before I beat him so badly in Scrabble.

And here’s an I Don’t Know What I’m Doing cover remix that Michael Brewer did:

Thanks Michael! If you’ve got a remixed cover, send it on in.